Jayson Semmens

Jayson Semmens is a Professor at the Fisheries and Aquaculture Centre (FAC), Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania (UTAS). His research has an overall theme of conservation/sustainability, where he focuses his research activities on biotelemetry; biologging and ecophysiology and more specifically, elasmobranch biology, spatial ecology, ecophysiology, and energetics; and cephalopod biology, ecology, and ecophysiology. He also has a strong interest and capability in examining the impact of anthropogenic change, often using an ecophysiological approach, particularly research examining effects of seismic surveys, as focused on its this application, and hypoxia and developing ways of mitigating impacts and rebuilding populations. Additionally, he conduct fisheries research on scallops and cephalopods.